Modified moment estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum-Saunders distribution

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-298

  Ng, H K T ^a   Kundu, D ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Bias reduced estimator; Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Confidence interval; Jackknife estimate; Monte Carlo simulations; Probability coverage

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

MOMENT ESTIMATORS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037593435     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00254-2     Document Type: Article

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